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Docker Containers and Images explained Simply

The T700 motherboard is a crowd funded modern drop-in replacement board for the Thinkpad T60/T61 range of laptops

OpenWrt is often ideal for older or cheaper modems to provide lots of extra, and up to date, features and security patches - Check when you buy, that a modem is OpenWrt compatible

Hugin is an open-source image editing tool for Linux, Mac OS, Windows, and BSD, allowing users to stitch photographs together and create panoramas digitally

13 Best Dark GTK Themes for Your Linux Desktop... Because You Have Lots of Great Options

See how much South Africans are spending on Black Friday on Payfast's Live Dashboard

The SwissMicros DM41X is a faithful recreation of the software environment of the HP-41CX, one of the most versatile calculators ever created and the first alphanumerical calculator, in a mod

Anyone else noticed how broken iOS 3rd party caller ID and spam caller protection has become?

Learn Kubernetes basic concepts and find out why it is such a popular container orchestration tool

ZombieTrackerGPS (ZTGPS) is a Fitness Tracker for Linux, and a Linux alternative to Garmin’s BaseCamp Software

5 Ways to Remove Background in Image Using Free and Open-Source GIMP

Manage Flatpak Permissions Graphically With Flatseal For Granular Control Of User Level Apps

Be alerted for price changes on websites for Black Friday Specials with Distill Web Monitor or similar browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox or Opera

This new website tells you if a Takealot deal is good by displaying the history for the price of an item

10 Best KDE Plasma Widgets and Extensions (Yes from 2020, but it sparks some ideas)

Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should: Install Linux on NTFS – on the same partition as Windows... Never mind the practicality, feel the grief

A Scratch Built Minimalist 4W SSB Transceiver Using Only 7 Transistors - Meet the PSSST-20 (Pete's Simple Seven SSB Transceiver)

Reddit has a large newbies friendly Wet Shaving Community with over 95k members

How to Install Free and Open-Source Odoo 15 (an open-source and all-in-one ERP and CRM business application) on Ubuntu 20.04

The north-German state of Schleswig-Holstein plans to switch to open-source software, including LibreOffice, in its administration and schools

A smartphone with time-of-flight (ToF) sensors (such as iPhone's LIDAR) could be used to detect hidden cameras

There Could Be A Big Opportunity For Hyundai In South Africa With Vehicle-To-Load (V2L) to power 240V appliances during load-shedding

Turn Your Raspberry Pi 4 Into a Portable Tablet with the RasPad 3 for $219 (includes 10.1" touch screen, accelerometer and 5 hour battery)

CIOs across Europe add their VOICE to chorus of calls to regulate cloud gatekeepers - What do we want? Licences not lock-in! Where do we want to use them? Anywhere!

FSearch is an ‘Everything Search Engine’ Alternative for Ubuntu (and other Linux distros)

This shouldn't be news but... Apple now lets you repair your own iPhone

Machine Learning Shushes Stressed Dogs - This DIY Project May Succeed Where Other Remedies Have Failed

Clever perspective puzzler Moncage is now available on Android (and on Steam Games)

Valve Says SteamOS 3.0 (Arch Linux with KDE Desktop on Wayland) Will Be Available for Everyone to Download and Install

Wireless, Off-Grid, No-License Communication for $27.99 using the LoRa Meshtastic T-BEAM device and existing Android or iOS devices

Twitter Makes Big API Changes For Devs As It Eyes Decentralized Future, But Right Now It Is More About 3rd Party Clients

These are the best power supply units you can buy for your PC in 2021 - An essential component for a stable system

Boffins use nuclear radiation (fast neutrons) to send data wirelessly... Because why just stick to 100-year old electromagnetic radio

The steam train between Cape Town and Elgin is back from 28 November 2021

Why wet shave with a safety razor? The safety razor is no longer a historical artefact, more a beautiful object of desire to shave with!

Solubag makes environmentally friendly bags and packaging that look like plastic, but will dissolve in water without leaving any toxic or polluting residues

The Open Rally Computer (formerly the Baja Pro) Motorcycle Rally Computer Goes Open Source

In the spirit of open government, France dumps 9,067 repos online with public sector open-source code, to show off its FOSS credentials

Apple will soon let you pass on your iCloud data when you die, but seems contacts need to have an Apple device and a death certificate to use it

How to Set Up Your Own Self-Hosted Open-Source Secure (Access) Email Server with Mailcow

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Visio to draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams of various types, flowcharts, network diagrams, and simple circuits

Stockholm’s official schools app was a disaster. So annoyed parents built their own open source version — a good case for open APIs

LibreWolf: A Regularly Updated Open-Source Firefox Fork Without the Telemetry

Linux Unplugged Podcast Discussing Starlink's Linux Secrets